Chilean police invaded an indigenous Mapuche community and arrested four leaders—weeks after a community leader presented the Mapuche case to human rights groups in Europe.
Iran's relations with the West seem to be improving. Will this finally lead to a conclusive investigation of Argentina's worst-ever terrorist attack?
Students in Buenos Aires have been occupying their high schools to protest the mayor’s plan to “modernize” education by restricting curriculum choices.
Performance art, floral tributes and militant protests marked 40 years since a military coup brought Chile a 17-year dictatorship, 3,000 deaths and thousands of cases of torture.
Thousands of Brazilians took to the street again to demand better schools, hospitals and social services, and to protest the vast sums expended on new sports stadiums.
An indigenous Mapuche community blocked access to the Argentine state oil company’s wells and derricks after five of the village’s buildings were set on fire.
Paraguay’s Congress voted up broad powers allowing the new right-wing president to use the armed forces for domestic policing, following a wave of guerilla attacks on estates.
A drop in gold prices and problems in Chile force Barrick Gold to write down its giant Pascua Lama mine by $5 billion, as investors start a suit against the multinational.
Already convicted of arms smuggling, now former president Menem is charged with involvement in a fatal arms factory explosion that destroyed evidence of the contraband.
A Chilean judge refused a request to prosecute former general Fernando Matthe, who oversaw the base where Gen. Alberto Bachelet was tortured to death in 1973.
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism urged Chilean authorities to refrain from applying anti-terrorism laws against the Mapuche indigenous people.
The center of attention in Brazil was supposed to be the pope’s visit, but for many people it was actions by the militarized police, such as the disappearance of a Rio construction worker.
